Dante puts those who exacerbate income inequality in his fourth circle of hell.
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Dante on Income Inequality
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Buchanan Would Be a Trump Enthusiast
“Great Gatsby” describes life under Trump to a tee, with Tom Buchanan an archetype of the wealthy Trump supporter.
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Can Lit Make the Rich More Empathetic?
With growing income disparity comes a decline in empathy. Literature can help rebuild our compassion.
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A New Gilded Age? We Need Frank Norris
Frank Norris’s naturalist 1901 novel “The Octopus: A Story of California” provides us a powerful lens through which to view the growing income discrepancy and the rollback of workers’ rights and benefits that we are seeing in the United States today.
